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This isnt for a tricycle as an American would think of it, but rather a customized, motorized 3 wheel rickshaw.
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Filipino license plate
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Filipino license plate
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Cucoy and Dudong (everyone has nicknames to the point that sometimes people donīt know each otherīs real names) have a little shop near the tennis court. I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that Cucoy is the only guy in the world with 8 tattoos who also loves the band Air Supply.
Cucoy and Dudong took me to a village that was having a fiesta. There were so-called parlor games and an orchestra. My favorite game was the one below where kids try to keep an unripe tomato between their faces while dancing. The last couple to keep the tomato aloft wins. Click on the videos to see how funny it is. Itīs a shame that I doubt this kind of game would be permissable in phobic America.
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Trying to eat corn
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A contest to see who could cry first
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A member of the "orchestra" with his homemade guitar.
Note the empty rum bottles littered on the ground.
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I thought this was a sad indication of how messed up the Filipino economy is that pawn shops are the most common shop you see even in the smallest villages, but Filipinos usually shrugged their shoulders and said it was a way of life for them to survive. Going abroad to find work is also a way of life. Itīs awful; Filipinos deserve better.
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Drying coconuts
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Giant spider
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Killing a chicken
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Cleaning the sludge
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DīJerk!
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Strange...
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6 was the most I saw on one bike
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Eels
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Humba (Siquijorian pork fat)
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Fish and I forget the name of the white ball
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Dried fish
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Very common lunch--too common.
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Lechon herbs
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Family lunch
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Iīm the one on the left. I am flushed from playing tennis. No need to call a doctor.
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A crowd watching Manny Pacquiao fight on TV
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Fried bananas seller
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Fried bananas
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Tuba (palm wine) seller
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Philippines
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